This Handprint Sun Craft is one of many fun sun crafts you can make with your kids. Use the free printable template to make a cute Valentine’s Day card for someone special. Or just a cheerful and fun art project brings a little sunshine to any room.
Although I’ve used this sun craft as a Valentine’s day card, you can also use it if you’re looking for weather crafts or a fun summer craft.
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More Valentine’s Day Crafts to try
Doing fun crafts is a great way to spend time together as a family. If you’re looking for more Valentine’s Day themed crafts, and not just Handprint Valentine’s Card ideas, then check out these art projects. They are some of the best ideas to do with young children.
- Sign Language Handprint Card
- Spin Art Hearts
- Heart Scrape Painting
- “Love” Hand and Footprint Art
- Handprint Shaped Valentine’s Card
For more ideas, take a look at these 12 Valentine’s Crafts for Kids.
Materials Needed
- The Sunshine Handprint Craft Template
- Yellow paint
- White paint
- Printer and paper
- Paint brush
- Black marker or paint pen
How to Make a Handprint Sun Craft
1. Download and print the free printable sunshine craft template.
You’ll find the digital files at the bottom of the post. Simply click the blue button to get your free copy.
You’ll get both a full page and half page template. The full page is perfect to use as a cute craft that you can hang on the wall. The half page is designed to be folded in half and used as a card for a special occasion, like Mother’s day or Father’s day.
I used light blue paper as the background for this fun handprint craft. However, you can always use regular white paper and paint light blue clouds instead. Having a white background will also help the yellow craft paint to really pop out at you and have a wonderful effect.
2. Paint white clouds in the background.
I used a large circle sponge stamper to make the clouds. However this is also the perfect time to let the kids finger paint their clouds. They’ll have so much fun getting messy and it has the added benefit of working their fine motor muscles in a new way.
3. Cover your child’s hand in yellow paint.
If you don’t want to use paint, you can always use yellow construction paper instead. Simple trace around your child’s hand to make a hand print outline on the yellow paper. Then all you need to do is cut it out and glue it onto your background.
This is the perfect way to help younger children to work on their scissor skills, and give them some more fine motor practice while they play.
4. Press the hand down firmly onto the paper.
Make sure that the fingers are facing towards the bottom of the page. These will be the sun’s rays shining through the clouds.
5. Let the paint dry.
6. Use a black marker to draw a happy face onto your smiling sun.
I used my black paint pen to draw the smiley face. I prefer to use an acrylic paint pen when drawing on paint, because I find that drawing on paint with regular black markers shortens the marker’s lifespan.
The colors are also more vibrant when using paint pens instead of markers, and gives the best results.
Are you going to make this Handprint Sun Craft with your kids?
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Over 90+ pages of Valentine’s day themed play based learning activities and craft templates. Perfect for preschool and kindergarten.
